Thorsten,
One of the programs in the molphy package calculates amino acid distance matrices.
There is a reference ot it on Joe Felsenstein's webpage:
http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/
I can send you a macintosh version of my program GCUA that will do this,
although it needs fasta-formatted protein-coding DNA sequences as input
(it converts to proteins and then calculates a distance matrix).
James
Thorsten Burmester wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Does anybody know a program that measures the metric distances of
> proteins by their amino acid compositions? Preferably one that can read
> alignment files. I don't want to do this work by hand...
>> Thorsten
>> --
> Thorsten Burmester
>thorsten at erfurt.thur.de
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